The distinctness of speakers' productions of vowel contrasts is related to their discrimination of the contrasts

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 2338-2344

  Perkell, Joseph S ^a,b   Guenther, Frank H ^b   Lane, Harlan ^c   Matthies, Melanie L ^b   Stockmann, Ellen ^d   Tiede, Mark ^d   Zandipour, Majid ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDITION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH PRODUCTION; VOWELS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 6344285250     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1787524     Document Type: Article

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